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vapoured, ppl. a.|ˈveɪpəd|
[f. vapour n. or v.]
1. Filled with vapour or moisture. rare.
1536Wyatt Poems (1913) I. 216 With vapourd Iyes he lokyth here and there. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus T iij b, With driueling and with vapoured eies.
2. Formed of or from vapour. rare—1.
1559Mirr. Mag. (1563) R iv, While from mine eyes The vapored teares downstilled here and there.
3. Affected with the vapours; suffering from nervous depression; low-spirited.
Freq. in the 18th cent., esp. in predicative use.
1670Covel in Early Voy. Levant (Hakluyt Soc.) 110 Instead of dull, mopish, vapour'd women..we found..bright and airy ladyes. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. iv. §3 (1734) 145 They were never vapour'd or low-spirited to any Degree. 1753Ess. Celibacy 104 If a vapoured person is at one time convinced of the truth of any proposition,..at another he will adopt the opposite opinion. 1796F. Burney Camilla III. 351 Sir Sedley..whispered: ‘I am horribly vapoured!’ 1810Crabbe Borough ix. 137 Her have I seen, pale, vapour'd through the day, With crowded parties at the midnight play. 1824Blackw. Mag. XV. 398 Write when you can do nothing else, when you are vapoured, and then I shall be sure to hear the truth.
transf.1755Monitor No. 21. I. 179 I may..give you a little respite in a vapoured day; when..your head akes. |